Monthly Archives: October 2015

The 2016 Titles are Here and Copied Below!! But before you get writing, you gotta get unpacking! Use the document linked below, above the titles, to work to unpack one of the questions below! I will assign you to a question!

In order to address this learning outcome, we’ll look at studies by Richard Davidson of the AMAZING UW-Madison. This one from 2004 in which he analyzed the brain waves of monks versus non meditating indivuduals and found that Monks produced more gamma waves which contribute to increasing grey matter in the brain:

**The other study you’ll want to know in order to address this learning outcome completely is Rosenweig and Bennet’s study from 1972 involving Rats and environment** In this study they placed rats in either a stimulating environment or non stimulating environment for 30 or 60 days. They were then killed, and lesioned. Researchers found that the rats who spent time in the stimulating environments had increased thickness in the cerebral cortex area of the brain**